Intent

While I’ve been doing entries about Ken Bartley Jr. and the Campbell County High shooting some people have been saying that Ken Bartley did not intend to shoot Ken Bruce and that they can’t prove intent. These people are either confused or unclear on the word “intent”. Their main argument is that Ken Bartley did not take the loaded gun to school with the intent of killing Ken Bruce or shooting Gary Seale and Jim Pierce. That may, in fact, be true. However if when Ken Bartley was approached about the gun, then he decided to raise the gun, aim it at Ken Bruce, and pull the trigger killing Ken Bruce then he did, in fact, intend to kill Ken Bruce. What you’re thinking of is premeditation. If Ken Bartley did not take the gun to school with the intent of killing Ken Bruce then it wasn’t a premeditated killing. However, that doesn’t mean there was no intent. If rather than going to jail Ken Bartley decided to shoot his way out of the situation then that shows intent, In my opinion, the only way to show there was no intent was if the gun discharged accidentally. Since the gun fired repeatedly striking four different people I doubt that can be called an accident. Hopefully, I’ve cleared this up for you because that was my intent.